Luis Medina
lm3jp@virginia.edu +1 480 323 0747
portfolio
University of Virginia Selected Works 2020
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Luis Medina Born ('95) and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. BSD Arch - Arizona State University MArch - University of Virginia
2018 2021
Luis Medina
Education
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University of Virginia Master of Architecture, Path II (2021) August 2019 / Current - Charlottesville, VA Arizona State University BSD - Architectural Studies Design Studies Minor January 2014 / May 2018 - Tempe, AZ
Experience
UVA, School of Architecture Research Assistant Collecting and regenerating 3D models and drawings of a selected series of domestic scale projects for the forthcoming exhibition Collective Living and the Architectural Imaginary. Curated by Felipe Correa, et al. August 2019 / Current - Charlottesville, VA True North Studio Architectural Designer In charge of conceptual design, project planning & design, building programming & analysis, 3D modeling and rendering. June 2018 / June 2019 - Phoenix, AZ True North Studio Architectural Intern Performed yield studies, site analysis, layout test fits and physical model making. December 2017 / May 2018 - Phoenix, AZ
Skills
01 Software Rhino + Vray Grasshopper Fusion 360
Autocad Revit Adobe Suite
02 Other VR - AR Laser Cutter Water Jet
3D Printer CNC Router Arduino
/ Languages English Spanish
Proficient Mother Tongue
/ Awards Spring 2018 Design Excellence Winner Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts Arizona State University Archiprix International 2019 Nominee World’s Best Graduation Project Competition The Design School at ASU 3
/ Extra Curricular Conflicting Terrirtories | Conflicting Communities International Workshop Participant of two joint studies: Cartographies for an Undertermined Ground and Landscape Design for Environmental Justice. Led by Prof. Alejandra Bosch (MA Landscape Urbanism, AA) and Prof. Paulina Fernandez (MLA, UC Berkeley) Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile & Universidad de Chile Summer 2019 - Santiago, Chile Latino Architecture Student Organization (LASO) at ASU Co-founder, Secretary & Event Coordinator January 2017 / May 2018 - Tempe, AZ, USA
Gender, Race & Sexuality + Design First student lead all-inclusive conversation on identity framed through creative design collaging. Lasugo 3.0 Collaborated with ASU Student Film Association to question food sharing restrictions within the university by projecting recollections of videoclips from Latin American food culture of prepping and eating. Model Fabrication Workshop at TechShop Full-day immersion on digital architectural model fabrication. Including individualized instruction on CNC Router, 3D printing, Water Jet and Laser fundamentals of use.
/ Publications Discipline: ASU Architecture Journal, Issue 03 Projects: The Weight, 79 Collective Housing Units Case Study May 2017 Discipline: ASU Architecture Journal, Issue 04 Projects: WTOWER01, Skin & Bones, Windhover Case Study May 2018 Discipline: ASU Architecture Journal, Issue 05 Project: Some Assembly Required May 2019 Archiprix International 2019 Project Catalog Project: Some Assembly Required June 2018
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C 01 BB-BB PUBLIC SURPLUS
p.06-15
(Manhattan , NY)
02 SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED
p.16-21
(Tempe, AZ)
03 ROMES IS A MUSEUM
p.21-27
(Rome, Italy)
04 ARTICULAR, REGENERAR, ACTIVAR
p.28-35
(Santiago, Chile)
05 THE NEST
p.36-37
(Tempe, AZ)
06 COUP DE GRACE
p.38-43
(Phoenix, AZ)
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Fall 2019 - M.Arch Foundation Studio III
Project Title: BB-BB Public SURPlus Location: Manhattan, NY
@NYC.edu Public Schools of the 21st Century
01 BB-BB PUBLIC SURPLUS Public Schools of the 21st Century
FOLDS, SEAMS + THREADS. UNRAVELING NEW YORK’S QUILT
School as an Object 315 E 113th St
Exploring the fictional feasibility of new public schools in the city of New York through the Public-Private Partnership Intiative (PPP). As part of this studio, we were tasked to generate an inventory of current public schools in the city of Manhattan. Later narrowing the search to those that are most unique and likely to be in risk by NY’s dominating real estate market. The following analysis focused on the study of the public schools’ locations through the lense of the city’s urban fabric. A set of operations were used to elaborate interpretive mappings that aided in identifying the schools and their soroundings in the context of the diverse city anatomy.
School as a Block 2005 Madison Ave
School as a Tower 1075 2nd Ave
School as an Edge 3073 10th Ave
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School as a Fragment 411 Pearl St
SITE
1811 Grid
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Current Fabric
*Selected Site
GIS Data Collection Mapping, Site Surveying and Historical Research
Instructor(s): Matthew Jull Project Partner: Harshita Batra
“Plan of 1811” put in place the rectangular grid plan of streets and lots that has defined Manhattan’s urban fabric to this day. The urban grid was closely examined through figure ground maps to classify (in different shades of gray) the building footprint patches that constitute the city’s quilt or (socalled urban fabric). In addition to identifying public schools, this map seeks to mantle the original grid with an new layer of information. One that considers the three-dimensionality of Manhattan’s fabric, including the most recent highrise development that continues to redelineate the city’s skyline.
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ROGRAM
SPATIAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC INTERRELATIONS -
Site - 411 Pearl St, Manhattan, NY
Brooklyn Bridge to Site
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50 million tourists visit the “glitzy branded” Times Square each year. A city ran marketing organization calculated that in September 2018 alone, the famed site welcomed 390,368 average daily visitors. This makes it one of the busiest tourist attractions in the world. Similarly, The Brooklyn Bridge, one of the most popular of America’s bridges brings in about a third of Times Square’s daily visitors. According to the New York City Department of Transportation, “more than 120,000 vehicles, 4,000 pedestrians, and 2,600 bicyclists cross the Brooklyn Bridge every day” (as of 2016). The project site, being located at such proximity to the Brooklyn Bridge and being home of the infamous Verizon Building, urged us to rethink the role of the iconic building within the context of the historic and highly circulated bridge.
AM ANALYSIS
FAR/Programming
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Existing - FAR 6 / FAR 14
Proposed FAR 12
Total Built: 130,800 m2
Total Built: 117,600 m2
(28,500 m2 school, 102,300m2 office)
Program:
Gymnasium,
- 78.22% Office (102,300m2) - 21.78% School (28,500m2) - 0% Residential (0m2) - 0% Public (0m2)
400'
500'
128m
Program:
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300'
Height: ~36m
floors)
m2
200'
Floors: ~12 (at full lot coverage)
Floors: 32 Office, 7 school
0 m2 (32 Floors)
100'
- 47.70% Office (56,100m2) - 24.23% School (28,500m2) - 20% Public (23,520m2) - 8.07% Residential (0m2)
Proposed FAR 10
Proposed FAR 14
Total Built: 98,000 m2
Total Built: 137,200 m2
Floors: ~10 (at full lot coverage)
DOES NOT SATISFY
Floors: ~14 (at full lot coverage)
Height: ~30m
Height: ~42m
Program:
Program:
- 51% Office (49,980m2)
- 40.90% Office (56,100m2) - 20.77% School (28,500m2) - 20% Public (27,440m2) - 18.33% Residential (25,160m2)
- 29.00% School (28,500m2) - 20% Public (19,600m2) - 0% Residential (0m2)
8,960 m2
70m
186m2
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Billboard Advertising Cost (per Ad) “The average size of the glitzy branded messages of Times Square is 2,013.25 square feet which is equal to 186m2 according to data from the Times Square alliance made available on the NYC Open Data website. The average one-bedroom apartment in New York City is a measly 784 square feet.”
Billboard Advertising Cost (per ad) Billboards
Avg. Billboard Prices
Total Yearly Income
Times Square NYC
$214,000/month
$2,658,000/year
Brooklyn Bridge
~$70,000/month
~$856,000/year
~$3,360,000/month
~$40,320,000/year
(estimated based on daily visitors, ~1/3 of Times Square)
SOURCE: BUSINESS INSIDER, “Surprising Facts About Size of Times Square Ads”.2016
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TOTAL (x48 Billboards)
*Estimated Revenue Potential
Site Context - Brooklyn Bridge Distributor Axonometric View 9
WALL
Urban Sity Analysis - Block Scale SPATIAL CONDITION
CIRCULATION
CAUSES
CONSEQUENCES
SPACE SYNTAX - CONNECTIVITY AND MOVEMENT
PEDESTRIAN ACCESS AND INTERSECTIONS
BROOKLYN BRIDGE + MAJOR MANHATTAN STREETS
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*Selected Typology Massing
Public SURPlus Circulation & Programmatic Distribution Scheme
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Vertical Trail VERTICAL TRAIL
1. School 2. Public 3. Office 4. Housing 5.Parking
Public/Private PROGRAM
Worm’s Eye View Billboard/Public Space Layering
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Section Perspective
Programmatic layers are organized by a series of imaginary lines that originate from the site’s west-most boundary facing the bridge distributor and from there continue to offset to create the spatial conditions demanded by the diversified building program. The layers range from super public, semipublic to private and semi-private respectively. The building strategy synthetizes this idea by creating a framework much like the one of a billboard where the outer most layer is a screen that is in constant interaction with the street’s passersby, behind it a spaceframe holds the public surplus program in the form of a vertical park, then a heftier structure houses the school, office and residential program, and finally a community greenhouse extension that allows the building to engender a more direct and healthier connection with its surrounding residential neighborhood. Pink = means public. (Public SURPlus)
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"Looking up" concept collage.
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Brookling Bridge Promenade perspective view.
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Spring 2018 - BSD.Arch Bachelor’s Capstone Studio
Project Title: Some Assembly Required Location: Tempe, AZ
Precast Concrete Research Center Extension to ASU Art School Warehouse
02 SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED Precast Concrete Research Center Extension to ASU Art School Warehouse
The project is located in Downtown Tempe, a part of the
It begins with a renovation of the existing art fabrication
Metropolitan Area with particularly hyperactive growth.
warehouse. Part of an existing road is utilized as a place to cast
The local design & arts college requires major updates and
a concrete vierendeel truss in segments, which are then tilted
expansions to its aging fabrication lab. These expansions
and lifted into place with a crane. After the five trusses are
include a lab for experimentation with concrete, a textile lab,
erected, pre-cast concrete catwalks are delivered to the site
design studios, a wood and metal shop, 3d printing and laser
and then post-tensioned across the beams, providing lateral
cutting labs, and mid-sized lecture halls.
bracing. Then, pre-cast floors and walls are delivered and posttensioned between the trusses. These floors and walls are cast as single hollowcore pieces, simplifying the on-site construction process. Finally, a hollowcore roof is post tensioned along the top of the trusses.
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Instructor(s): Catherine Spellman, Claudio Vekstein, Elena Rocchi
Project Team: Abel Clutter, Zach Bundy Role: Project Development, Drawing and Visualization
The project is located in Downtown Tempe, a part of the
The Phoenix Metropolitan Area is known for its suburban
Metropolitan Area with particularly hyperactive growth.
sprawl, replete with seemingly ubiquitous, cheaply
Maximum cost-saving is achieved with the pre-cast
constructed speculative developments; despite this dubious
concrete construction process when:
recognition, Downtown Phoenix and nearby Tempe are undergoing rapid vertical development. This phenomenon
a. Elements of a project are repeated .
is fueled in part by Phoenix’s access to affordable pre-cast concrete manufacturing as well as “tilt-up” construction.
b. The number of moulds required for precasting is minimized . c. The project site and pre-cast plant are in close proximity. 17
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CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE
WEEK 6
SITE CONTEXT XRAY AXON
WEEK 0
WEEK 1-3
WEEK 4
WEEK 5
WORM’S EYE EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC VIEW
EXISTING ART WAREHOUSE NEW SUSPENDED PROGRAM
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LEVEL 2 ADDITION FLOOR PLAN
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“Theather In The Round”. The strength of the existing structure’s design is in its central courtyard. The existing courtyard is kept empty so that each wing of the building is able to temporarily take over the center. The courtyard acts as a “stage”; it is an empty vessel for an infnite variety of functions. Our design chooses to superimpose this stage with all of the mechanical components that would be found in a theater: rigging, some operable walls, a hoist, and places from which to view the activity. The new program, which involves design and drafting, is suspended above the old program, which involves fabrication. Ultimately, this project aims to create a prototype building expansion which redeems pre-cast cost-saving strategies as an architectural asset within the context of Phoenix’s rapid development.
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Spring 2019 International Competition
03 ROME IS A MUSEUM Rome Collective Living Challenge by Bee Breeders Location: Rome, Italy Project Team: Zach Bundy, Nicholas Shekerjian
Role: Project Development, Drawing and Visualization How do we live in a museum? When Pope Sixtus V redesigned Rome with several intense and important axes of circulation, he effectively created the scenographic organization that would greatly contribute to Rome’s renown as a city. As time persisted, the beautiful scenography of Sixtus V’s master plan was a determinant factor in creating the museification Rome we see today. Pope Sixtus V set forth the contemporary condition of Rome being a major site of tourism, so much so that a vast proportion of its economy is dependent upon tourism as an industry. Out of fear of tainting the image of Rome, decades of leadership have avoided housing development in the city’s most important areas. Successful collective housing must not be relegated to the poorly connected, unproductive outskirts of the city but rather engage the most highly connected and historically significant sites where residents are connected directly to economy and labor of the city.
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Project Title: Rome is a Museum Location: Rome, Italy
Rome Collective Living Challenge by Bee Breeders
Project Team: Zach Bundy, Nicholas Shekerjian
Role: Project Development, Drawing and Visualization
*Figures based on 2017 data gathered by the International Centre of Studies on the Tourism Economy, University of Venice. †All site values represent maximum spending potential via tourism.
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By adopting the organization of Pope Sixtus V’s master plan, the housing frames the various obelisks Sixtus contributed to the city, reframing the piazza below through calculated public circulation and observation. The monthly rent of each resident is subsidized by entry fees to an observation deck at the top of the tower.
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Residents actively engage in daily rituals which are layered vertically, rather than horizontally. The movement between vertical neighborhoods via seamlessly transitioning ramps promotes the traditional, uniquely Roman sense of collective living.
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Typical Housing Floor Plan
The residential floor plan adopts four radical strategies to invert the skyscraper typology for the purposes of collective living. 1 Common use spaces and circulation are placed on the outer edge of each floor. The panorama of Rome is therefore not confined to private individuals, but functions as a public good. 2 Private spaces are minimized, encouraging each resident to engage in communal activity, including cooking, eating, conversing, and even bathing. 3A public-use level is included at every fourth floor, acting as a piazza in the sky, and serving as both a social and functional area for residents in adjacent levels. 4 The shear walls and elevator shaft are envisioned as an atrium which opens to each piazza, and is viewable from private areas; the z-axis of the obelisk is envisioned as a dynamic area of public life.
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Summer 2019 International Workshop
Project Title: Articular, Regenerar, Activar Location: Santiago, Chile
Conflicting Terrirtories | Conflicting Communities Matadero Franklin Neighborhood
04 ARTICULAR, REGENERAR, ACTIVAR Matadero Franklin, Santiago Metropolitan Area
Global Brief and workshop coordination by:
Photo from Archiprix.org
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Facultad de Arquitectura and Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo. The workshops focused on the MataderoFranklin neighborhood in Santiago. The area is both unique and relatable to districts in cities around the globe: a disputed territory between market and social forces. The area presents all the conflicts of the new urban regeneration processes: real estate redevelopment of high-density market-rate housing, emerging gentrification, spaces of mass and informal retail, degraded flood-control infrastructures, obsolete industrial buildings, vacant lots of the former railroad system, and so on. In other words, all the tensions at the core sectors of Latin American cities where cultural, social, and economic values collide, forcing groups and cultural movements to take control over the design of these new spaces. Picture the following: streets jammed with formal and informal vendors while pedestrians scan the merchandize here and there, attracted by the color, the variety, and the accumulation. In between, old and new warehouses bursting with furniture, antiques, technology, books, and all kind of products—vintage or brand new— scattered through a neighborhood famous for being the largest flea market in the country.
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Matadero Street Market.
Revitalized space turned gallery.
Instructor(s): Alejandra Bosch and Paulina Fernandez (UC Chile Faculty)
Project Team: 12 students from around the world Role: Project Development, Drawing and Final Presentation
INDEPENDENCIA
RECOLETA
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CONCENTRATION AREAS 1. BALMACEDA 2. PARQUE DE LOS REYES 3. PLAZA ITALIA 4. LO ENCALADA 5. FRANKLIN 6. LO VALLEDOR 7. ESTACION CENTRAL
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Understanding the hidden foundation El Cinturon de Hierro. “ The site are associated with the railway was directly linked to economic development in the city and the country, that in 1842 gave birth to Santiago-Valparaiso Train Project. The impact of the railway contour on the city were incrementally sequential, generating an area of industrial activity that constituted "El cinturon de Hierro". This ring's infrastructure became—for many years—one of the most characteristic features of the city" Roberto Moris Architect UC – MSc LSE La Frontera Interior en el desarrollo de la ciudad de Santiago Contexto del Plan Anillo Interior de Santiago*
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BASE MAP BARRIO FRANKLIN
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VOIDS BARRIO FRANKLIN
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Data Mapping/Measuring the Intangible Matadero-Franklin is already a lively and dynamic urban area, but we found the issue is that functions related to Mobility, Landscape, and Public Space were conflicting with one another due to underdeveloped planning strategies. These cause conflicts such as: cars and pedestrians sharing roadways, hyper-active and overly under-active areas at same peak times of the day, underutilized parks due to isolation, etcetera.
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Toolbox Development - Circumscribed interventions to articulate, regenerate and activate Measuring intangible elements enabled us to gather the data needed to find complex relations between different sets of spatial conditions. The design parameters and later patchwork became a single polycontextural solution which deals with a range of issues across the site. In other words, the data from our maps are inputs for the introduction of new programs and ecologies.
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Summer 2019 International Workshop
Project Title: Articular, Regenerar, Activar Location: Santiago, Chile
Outskirts of Santiago / Rural
The masterplan is based on a reintroduction of a dynamic agricultural blend to the area. The patchwork was then developed to create uninterrupted links between existing elements of Matadero’s existing urban fabric. We used the agricultural concept to inform the ecology of each area within the patchwork concept. The programs and spatial geometries of each area correlates to its density and species of plants, irrigation, fauna, pollination, growing season, among others factors.
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Conflicting Terrirtories | Conflicting Communities Matadero Franklin Neighborhood
Existing Matadero Franklin - City
Instructor(s): Alejandra Bosch and Paulina Fernandez (UC Chile Faculty)
Project Team: 12 students from around the world Role: Project Development, Drawing and Final Presentation
New Rus in Urbe Proposal
Definition of rus in urbe : country in the city : a city garden or park evoking the rural countryside
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In summary, the goal of this project was to find, measure, and represent the invisible qualities of Matadero which cannot be readily seen on a map. The mapping of these unseen elements allowed us to develop an intimate understanding and appreciation of a very complex and dynamic site.
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Furthermore, these data maps allowed us to create a patchwork concept which rigorously addresses existing local conditions of Mobility, Landscape, and Public Space with a larger unifying concept. Our approach is not a large and insensitive gesture, but a system of understanding the “whole” through the “sum of its parts”.
MAIN PEDESTRIAN CIRCULATION
NEIGHBORHOOD GARDEN 1
FOREST VEGETATION 1
NEIGHBORHOOD GARDEN 2
FOREST VEGETATION 2
COMMUNITY GARDEN 1
PARK VEGETATION 1
COMMUNITY GARDEN 2
PARK VEGETATION 2
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Summer 2017 - BSD.Arch 10-Day Challenge
Project Title: The Nest Location: Tempe, AZ
05 THE NEST
Reimagining the Sun Devil Stadium
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ADAPTIVE REUSE
LECTURE/PLAY HOUSE
PERFORMANCE ARENA
POP-UP GALLERY
MEDITATION/NAP ROOM
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The Devil’s Nest is a stadium reimagined into a community environment that welcomes everyone in the surrounding area. The driving force behind the concept was to give the stadium a new face and transform it into an inviting space for the ASU and Tempe community. The space is to be used year-round by creating an installation of inflatable structures. The installation divides the field into public and private spaces of entertainment. Multiple activities can take place within the field area, such as guest lectures, movie night, yoga, art galleries, fairs and any other events the community would like to host. The concourse is reserved for commercial venues that lead to a garden atop the sundeck that serves as a recreation area.
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In Collaboration with: Nick Morton, Ya Peng and Jessica Anderson
Role: Concept Development, Drawing and Visualization
Communal-use elongated field (above), exterior Iiflatable structures (below).
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Summer 2019 - True North Studio Professional Work
Project Title: Coup de Grace Location: Roosevelt Arts District, Phoenix, AZ
06 COUP DE GRACE Speakeasy Bar Concept
Grace focuses on creating intimate and unique dining and drinking experiences at Tuck Shop Kitchen, taking great pleasure in delivering a carefully crafted food and cocktail encounter with an emphasis on undoubtedly warm and unparalleled service. After purchasing Tuck Shop in 2015, Grace Unger has used her years of experience overseas to elevate the overall dining experience resulting in a significant increase in revenue, brand awareness and the restaurant’s reputation from local and visiting clientele. Dark & seductive. Travel back in time to France in the 1970’s. With the words “Leben wie Gott in Frankreich” (live like God in France) inscribed across the back bar wall, we enter a time of anti-Americanism in France. Coup de Grâce highlights a somewhat dark time for the country. A time where the French were struggling with the idea that they may lose recognition as the most desirable country in the world. Guests can expect a highly unique cocktail bar concept featuring a full absinthe service, french whiskies, and seasonal cocktails in the 500 sq.ft. space with subtle neon lighting and a rustic French lounge style design.
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In Collaboration with: Joel Contreras and Grace Unger (Owner)
Role: Concept Development, Drawing and Visualization
Note: Construction Documentation developed by CLAY Architecture and Design (formerly Urban Plough)
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32’-0”
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SOUTH ELEVATION
South Elevation
PROJECT
COUP DE GRÀCE TITLE
EXTERIOR ELEVATIONS
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1’-0”=1/4”
WEST ELEVATION
PROJECT
COUP DE GRÀCE TITLE
EXTERIOR ELEVATIONS
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Process Drawing: SW Axonometric View
Note: Construction Documentation developed by CLAY Architecture and Design (formerly Urban Plough)
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Coup de Grace 218 E Portland St, Phoenix, AZ Status: Built
January 2020 Openning Photos
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Note: Construction Documentation developed by CLAY Architecture and Design (formerly Urban Plough)
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Contact
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lm3jp@virginia.edu +1 480 323 0747
University of Virginia Selected Works 2020
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